There never was a good war or a bad peace.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

The free flow of conflicting ideas and feelings is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.

No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.